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Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World (1985)

Overview

Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce Elder’s filmmaking from 1975 to 1994. In ancient Egyptian culture, the Book of the Dead consisted of religious texts intended to help preserve the spirit of the departed in the afterlife — but in Elder’s reading, that comforting idea of continuity takes on a rather darker cast. Lamentations is comprised of a complex audio and visual patchwork: a philosophical meditation superimposed as text throughout the film; vignettes featuring a comical but disturbing Franz Liszt, a debate between Isaac Newton and George Berkeley, an angry, deranged man in an alley, and an arrogant psychiatrist; and a final search for salvation in the forests of British Columbia, the American Southwest, and Mexico’s Yucatan.
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R. Bruce Elder profile
R. Bruce Elder

Director

Cast

Robert Fothergill profile
Robert Fothergill

Narrator (voice)

Kristina Jones profile
Kristina Jones

Narrator (voice)

David King profile
David King

Isaac Newton

James D. Smith profile
James D. Smith

Franz Liszt

Tony Wolfson profile
Tony Wolfson

Bishop Berkeley

Murray Pomerance profile
Murray Pomerance

Psychiatrist

Bart Testa profile
Bart Testa

Lecturer

Robert Fothergill profile
Robert Fothergill

Narrator (voice)

Kristina Jones profile
Kristina Jones

Narrator (voice)

David King profile
David King

Isaac Newton

James D. Smith profile
James D. Smith

Franz Liszt

Tony Wolfson profile
Tony Wolfson

Bishop Berkeley

Murray Pomerance profile
Murray Pomerance

Psychiatrist

Bart Testa profile
Bart Testa

Lecturer

Extra

Release Date

October 10, 1985

Original Language

English

Budget

$0.00

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